An Interesting Fact About Your Country

[Gingerman]

I'm from the UK so I'll narrow it down to Scotland.

Gaelic wasn't the main language of Scotland before the English language took over, as it was only spoken in the highlands.

Scots was the main language, Scots was also a language that was originally from a Germanic tribe and doesn't sound like a drunk toothless man like Gaelic does. That said it wont stop the SNP party trying to convince us otherwise...

 

[Cipher1]

http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/because-every-country-is-the-%20%20best-at-something/#

Because every nation is special at something even if its just how many cameras are watching you at anyone moment.....

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

I'm an american and I think one of the most interesting things about our country is that our Navy is larger (in tonnage, not necessarily manpower) than the combined Navies of the next 17 nations of consequence.

 

[Tallim]

We are the only country to ever beat England at a (naval) war.

- The Netherlands

Was that the Battle of Dungeness?

 

[HerbertTheHamster]

we're causing the recession

huehuehuehue

I'm an american and I think one of the most interesting things about our country is that our Navy is larger (in tonnage, not necessarily manpower) than the combined Navies of the next 17 nations of consequence.

Are you calling the marines fat?

 

[Josh123914]

we like potatoes(take a guess) but potatoes originally come from South America and can grow in very poor conditions which is why We had a population explosion in the 18th and early 19th centuries

 

[Who Dares Wins]

The most interesting fact about my country is that there are no interesting facts about my country.

Maybe we're the most pushed around country ever. Maybe we have he highest corruption rate this side of the Milky Way. I'm not sure.

 

[SckizoBoy]

We are the only country to ever beat England at a (naval) war.

- The Netherlands

*hrk* Gone are the days when the Dutch had a powerful navy... pretty impressive for such a dinky country (and one that wasn't even technically a country at the time, just a collection of trading guilds/cities).

Uh, I'll go for: the part of my home country/city that everyone thinks goes by that name is actually called 'Nine Dragons'.

EDIT:

We are the only country to ever beat England at a (naval) war.

- The Netherlands

Was that the Battle of Dungeness?

Nah, it was up the Medway wasn't it? At Chatham or Rochester?

You are indeed correct, Raid on the Medway that effectively decided the Second Anglo-Dutch War (in favour of the Dutch, naturally). Debatably, they got the better of the First Engelse Zee-Oorlorgen as well.

 

[I am 2 cool 4 anime]

Beograd (Belgrade) is one of the oldest cities in Europe, first settled in the 3rd century BC by the Celts, before becoming the Roman settlement of Singidunum

Belgrade won the title of ?City of the Future? for Southern Europe, in a contest sponsored by The Economist/FDI Magazine.

Serbia is the largest raspberry exporter, accounting for one third of all the raspberries in the world. Close to 95 percent of the world?s top quality raspberries come from Serbia

The Roman Emperor, Constantine the Great, was born in Nis, Serbia, in 274 AD.
The Miroslav Gospel, written in the twelfth century, is the oldest preserved Serbian manuscript.

The Cathedral of Saint Sava or Hram svetog Save in Belgrade is the largest Orthodox Church currently in use.

Prince Michael Street is the main walking street in Belgrade, the capital of Serbia. It is a pedestrian zone and shopping center, protected by law as one of the oldest and most valuable landmarks of the city. It has a large number of impressive buildings and mansions, built at the end of 1870s. Thats enough!

 

[Lord Doomhammer]

we're causing the recession

huehuehuehue

I'm an american and I think one of the most interesting things about our country is that our Navy is larger (in tonnage, not necessarily manpower) than the combined Navies of the next 17 nations of consequence.

Are you calling the marines fat?

The Marines are a separate branch as of 1834, though they have like a hundred landing ships those vessels don't figure into the Navy's vessel tonnage.

Also, since it's your fault for all this economic ruin, can you fix Detroit? Seriously, because it's starting to look like its been shelled out, and nobody in our country seems to want to go there anymore.

 

[jyork89]

In New Zealand it is actually illegal to have sex with sheep!!! (Shocking I know)
In a more serious tone, we are one of only two OECD countries that does not have a written constitution (the other being the UK). Couple that with the fact that apparently we have 2nd lowest rate of corruption in the world and it's a lot more amazing. Makes me wonder what exactly a written constitution actually does... (apart from letting rednecks prepare for WW3)

 

[ZombieGenesis]

I come from the UK, the land of weird idiosyncrasies

We are one of only three countries to have an uncodified constitution.

Can anyone name the other two?

New Zealand and Isreal, right?

Had better be right, that's my subject.
Also on the matter of the UK; slavery was not abolished (as in, one person owning another) until 2010! Two-thousand ten. No lie.
Mostly because slavery had never actually taken off here, and segregation never happened. So it was never seen as necessary to put it in print until recently.

 

[TheMann]

My country contains the tallest mountain in the world, standing 10,203m from base to summit.

 

[captaincabbage]

Apparently, Australia is the fattest country in the world.

... woo Australia.

Honestly, I can't pick out anyone in my town who's overweight.

OT: As Yahtzee put it, "Welcome to Australia! Try our beer and racism!"

 

[azukar]

Indeed, Prawns and to some extent Crawdads are better than shrimp, especially in a nice Jumbalaya.

I wouldn't know - I don't like seafood

 

[Treblaine]

But what are the technicalities if the Parliament actually invite the new monarch in who has certain (arguable) claims to the throne?

"technically" James II was considered Abdicated when he fled to France.

No, actually he fled rather than fight off what was, he knew, an unwinnable war against an invading force with massive popular support in England. He was then adjudged to have forfeited his crown and spent the rest of his life in France. It may almost be a mockery of the word invasion, but there it is. It was an invasion, just a consensual one.

And the way in which it is an invasion is that parliament could not, and cannot, appoint a king. They can ask him to stake his claim and overthrow the current king, as they did, but them simply asking him to be king does not make him king. A coup was required, so an invasion was mounted and he seized power.

Was it a coup or an invasion? Surely one or the other, and "invasion" and "consent" must be a conflict in terms.

Well since you're a lawyer, show us where in our "codified constitution" that parliament cannot appoint a king?



We don't have a constitution, parliament does what it deems and has done since Cromwell. The event was not called an invasion and has not been called an invasion till very recently by who might be called revisionists. It's always been known as "The Glorious REVOLUTION".

 

[Walter Sobchak]

Did you know the United States has a whole area in the south that makes terrible political choices

 

[Mechsoap]

Do not quote me on this, but I once heard it was legal to have sex with fish here. Correct me if I am wrong.

(Denmark)

 

[Winston Biggleswade]

London in the UK is the most multicultural city in the world.

How they test that I don't know.

 

[Jonluw]

Norway was practically a third world country before we struck oil.
Now we're at the top of the united nations' human development list.

Also: Vikings.